Tone is a new pupil at the Grahame White School, London Aerodrome, Colindale Avenue, Hendon, learning to fly at his own expense.
“Instructed by Mr Lewis Turner in controls previous to rolling on 25-hp Blériot.” [Flight, No.195, Sept 21 1912]
Teaching-Flying_Flight_International_Magazine_1913-03-22-pdfBayetto household during the 1911 Census. Tone’s parents Hippolyte (restaurant waiter) & Rosalie plus his older brother Claudio (motor mechanic, repair works) were living at ‘Sandringham’ 26 Sumburgh Road, Clapham Common, West Side, London. Tone was presumably visiting Bombay at the time of the census. Hippolyte’s nationality (Italian) is correctly recorded this time.
Hippolyte (Tone) sets off from London to Bombay on board the SS Arabia. His service record card (AIR/76/29) states that he was working for the Bombay Motor Car Company in Bombay, India as a motor engineer from 1912 to 1913 (but probably should have been 1911 to 1912).
Tone records his occupation as a racing driver for Fiat Motors in Wembley from 1910 to 1911 (AIR/76/29)
The Bayettos purchased 26 Sumburgh Road, Clapham Common, London and lived there till 16 May 1913. [HO 144/1356/261608]
Louis Blériot sitting in his Bleriot XI at the start of his cross-Channel flight of 25 July 1909. NASM-2B02568, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Archives
Early in the morning of July 25th, 1909 Louis Blériot (1872-1936) crossed the English Channel, a distance of 22 statute miles (36.6 km) from Les Barraques (near Calais) to Dover. There had been longer flights and further flights, but the conque st of the Channel by air was a sensation and brought Blériot instant fame. Blériot had been a successful manufacturer of automobile headlamps who became fascinated by aeronautics in starting in 1901. He brought his latest aircraft to Les Barraques, the Type XI, a little monoplane fitted with a 25-horsepower, 3 cylinder Anzani motor. The London Daily Mail had put up a £1,000 prize for the first airplane flight across the Channel, and Blériot was competing with two other aviators, Hubert Latham and Charles de Lambert. Lambert, who received his training from Wilbur Wright, had been injured in a test flight and was out of the running. Latham had already attempted a Channel flight – he had made it halfway across the Channel in his Antoinette IV monoplane on July 19 when engine failure brought him down in a forced landing in the sea. On the morning of the 25th, Latham was ready for another attempt with a replacement aircraft, but was still fast asleep when Blériot took to the air. The flight took 36 minutes, 30 seconds, and was not without suspense. Blériot had also been injured in a test flight and was in pain with a badly injured foot. The photograph above, taken just before the flight, shows the strain that Blériot was under. It began to rain, and Blériot feared that the moisture would cause the Anzani to pack it in. The weather became turbulent, and visibility declined; he later recalled thinking – I am alone. I can see nothing at all. At Dover, the wind nearly caused him to crash, and his landing gear and propeller were damaged. But he had made it, and he was declared the winner. It was the first successful flight by an airplane over a large body of water. Hubert Latham was not happy when he finally woke up. Blériot became a hero, celebrated on both sides of the Channel. And his Type XI became a best seller – many were produced by the Blériot firm, others by foreign licensees. [ https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/bl%C3%A9riots-cross-channel-flight ]
The Bayettos purchased 143 Hambalt Road, Clapham Common, London and lived there till 31 August 1909 [HO 144/1356/261608]
Hippolyte is incorrectly recorded as having been born in Granada, Spain (Spanish subject).
Tone and his older brother Claudio both start school at St Martin-in-the-fields School on 6 February 1900. For both boys: “Last School: French School….. Reason for leaving: Belgium”
At that time they were living at 257 Sandringham Flats, Charing Cross Road, London – in the St Giles district. 
Around this time Toné will have attended the French Protestant church School of Westminster. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/institutions/french_protestant_church_school.htm
